The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-04
A MODERN COLUMBUS.
The London Times" Awaken to the
Discovery of America.
From the Nete York World.


LONDON, Aug. 29.--The London Times has
discovered" America. Itannounces to-day
in an editorial of over n column in length
that it has undertaken the enterprise of send
ing bold and tried correspondent through
"the unknown country of the United States
to make a report upon the marves of this
wonderful country IL prints to-day a
three-column description of New York har-
Dor and Madison Square. Other letters are
in hand from the same correspondent, who,
the editor says, will describe this wonder
full people at what seems TO be the most
wonderful moment of its material expansion
and development, when the most active
branch of the human race has found itself
suddenly put in possession of unbounded
physical resources, and when it is undertak-
ing the task of developing those resources
with an energery and success Of which the
world has never before known the equal.n
Upon the information furnished by this
investigation the Times has published the
most euogistic editorial upon the United
States that has ever appeared in any Eng
lish newspaper. After picturing the ire
mendous progress of our country, il says:
ut is impossible as one reads any such ac-
count as our correspondent is about to give
to refrain from asking whittier all this
progress is tending, and what will be its re-
suit upon the American people themselves
and upon mankind in general. Merely to
state the question is TO imply that il is one
to which time alone can furnish an answer
The future is obscure enough everywhere
but in a country where the past has been so
productive of rapid change it must be still
more inscrutable. What most occu-
pies the minds Of the more reflective
among the citizens of the American re-
public is the question whether their social
orc,a M fiD1, will ba abla uffas q xybila to
stand the strain of this extraordinary de
velopment. Till now it may be said that
the progress has been comparatively a small
affair, for the reason that the supply of
land was practically unlimited, and that
new settlements could be. found at pleasure
for new settlers Already, however, this Is
ceasing to be the case, and, although the
land still continues to be, in most parts of
the continent, extremely cheap, it can no
longer be had for nothing With every
year its price will rise and with every year
the population will increase The danger,
of course is that serious labor troubles may
be the reSultlof any check upon the deYel-
opneut of the country, which, after a
while, must almost inevitably come.
at is often said by the Americans them
selves that their whole political and social
constitution, as established by the fathers
of the republic, was based upon the theory
iuCu WIN DiNOby ~ tiuut, anu Liiub
there neither were nor would be any great
differences of wealth or Of intellect or of
character. Modern New York is, however,
the very negation of equality, since it con
tains at once the poorest and richest popula~
ton of any city in the world. will Ameri-
can institutions, then. be able permanently
to stand in the face of the inevitable press
sure from below, which must come when
labor, unable to find ready and perpetual
TO organize itself Side by side with
this greatest of all questions come whole
groups of problems, scarcely less important,
such as the effect of the continuance of the
policy of protection, and the effect of the
probably increasing divergence of interest
between the West and East. In one word,
there are plenty of rocks ahead. But, on
the other hand, the American branches of
the English race has shown itself up to the
present time wonderfully well equipped for
dealing with its own political problems,
and there seems to be no reason why any
but hopeful view should be taken of its
power of so doing in the future. For it
must be remembered that, though every ma
ton pours its emigrants into America, it is the
English race which is dominant there. A sin
gle generation is enough to turn the German
or the Swedish settler into thoroughbred
American, assimilated to. his native-born
nelghD0rS Inc lrlSh-AmefIcan Is The more
difficult individual, but even he, after two
generations of lobbying and political in
triguing, usually settles down into an ordi-
nary citizen and becomes a hard working
man of business, with proper contempt
for political bosses. 1t is this extraordinary
power of moulding all incoming races into
their own likeness which is, perhaps, the
most remarkable feature of the Anglo
American people, and, as it seems TO grow
stronger instead of weaker as the time goes
on, it is an augury Of peace for the future. :"